A Plague of Flies
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you please, through the Listener, give me a recipe for a good fly killer? We have a veritable plague of them and nothing that I do seems to
lessen them.
-Mrs.
H.J.
P.
I expect the "season for flies" will be over before this letter appears in "The Listener’. Flies seem to come inside in millions for a day or two at a time, and then take a notion to go somewhere else. Just as we congratulate ourselves on being free from the pests, however, back they come again. The various fly-sprays on the market are very good; and here is a recipe for a home-made one. I have made and used this myself, and found it good for mosquitoes as well as flies. Fly Spray.-One quart of kerosene mixed with six-pennyworth of wintergreen. Use in spray. Fly Spray No. 2.-Here is another: Soak for 7 days 1 oz. pyrethrum ers in 1 quart of kerosene, stirring once or twice during the week. Strain, and add 14 oz. wintergreeni. Home-Made Flv Papers~-You may prefer to make this: Heat 8 parts of resin in 5 parts of castor oil till melted. Spread while hot on sheets of paper, or on wires. It can be put in tins ‘or jars, and re-heated when needed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 23
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220A Plague of Flies New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 149, 1 May 1942, Page 23
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